Agitation Through Stickers
Martin Luther King Jr. called the Declaration of Independence’s universalist promise of equal rights a “promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.” Two-plus centuries later, that promise has yet to materialize. It's never been more apparent that the principles of universal and equal rights proclaimed in 1776 can’t be fulfilled under the current Constitution.
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration will bring a deluge of hymns to America and a downpour of constitutional praise. We must do our best to reframe the conversation around the need for a new democratic founding: a constitution that places supreme authority in a single federal legislature elected through universal and equal suffrage, and establishes civil and political rights for all. Two hundred and fifty years without democracy is long enough.
The sequel to buttons is stickers. Let's keep the conversation going. We are now offering free Project 2026 stickers. The design is visible above. If you’d like a sticker, please email lukepickrell@yahoo.com with your address and color choice, and we’ll take care of everything else.
Personally, I think it's a bad idea to use the American flag as a symbol of democracy. One of the advantages of demanding a democratic constitution is that the demand implies that the US itself negates the legitimacy it claims while also positing a positive vision for what the US territories would need to free themselves from the Constitution and thus the claim to legitimacy implicit in the Constitution (slavery, property rights, genocide). You negate both advantages by implying that the foundations of the Empire are legitimate and yet need to be made legitimate. The revolutionary significance of a democratic constitution is nullified and instead we act more like the hollow progressivism of the democratic party.